Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2002 15:47 schrieb Andreas Beckermann: > Hi > > On Thursday 03 January 2002 12:08, Olaf Stetzer wrote: > > Now to my problem: Some kde apps as well as others consume a lot > > of physical memory for no reason. This is related to the problem I > > posted yesterday about xfs. I now deleted xfs and so the Xserver is > > consuming a very big amount of memory. Here is a list of some > > programms currently running (size from kap): > > X: 92 MB > > knotes: 22 MB > > alarmd: 21 MB > > kap: 16 MB > > klaptopdaemon: 16 MB > > Where do you have these numbers from? top and friends? I don't know kap... > Don't believe top and friends. They lie at you. See > http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/shared_memory.html > The "problem" is shared memory. Shared memory is only allocated once in > memory but it is shown for every program that uses this memory. So all > programs together can take 200 MB of memory although you have only 128 > MB...
Sorry a typo. kap is kpm! About believing the numbers: Yes and no. Even the used physical memory (RSS in top) is very high for these programs and I got killed processes due to the Out of Memory killer! When I log in (freshly booted) via kdm into kde2 my memory & swap is nearly "full" (command: free) and I habe 128 MB ram and 100 MB swap! There is something wrong here! Olaf -- Dr. Olaf Stetzer Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Institut für Meterologie und Klimaforschung Atmosphärische Aerosole (IMK III) - http://imk-aida.fzk.de Tel.: +49(0)7247-82-3249 (FAX: -4332)